Category: paintings

I’ve never drawn like I paint, standing away from the surface.  These big drawings allow me to move across the surface, not be stuck sitting close.  I LIKE IT!

I’m using my time sequestered by the snow to do big drawings.   The aspect is about the same as the hollow core doors I use.  The paper is tracing paper, and they may fall apart as soon as I unpin them from the wall, but I have had a lot of freedom drawing them.  I’ve always been intimidated by drawing, because I really struggle to get things in proportion.  With these drawings, I’m not even trying.  I have a step stool to get me to the top, and it’s fun to sustain a line that’s more than 80″s long.  Do you dread Christmas parties as much as I do?

I used the end of a roll of kraft paper and worked on a drawing.  Spirals and double helixes have come from my idea of Birth/Death.

There’s at least 2 ft. of snow.  It’s beginning to look a lot like Chicago, except steeper.  We have coffee for 3 more days, then we will be forced to get out, one way or another!

The max. dimension on these is 12″, which is kinda weird for me, I usually work on a larger scale.  This is a shot at shameless commerce, nobody can say they’re tooooo expensive.

This is my dirty secret.  Until today, I had never had any of my art professionally frames.  Robert Reitz is my HERO.  See what he framed at Art on Depot.  The war rages in my head.  Framing works on paper costs, but there is something about canvas that makes me stumble.  May all be a dumb discussion, I’ve sold ONE painting this year, so maybe the medium isn’t the problem.  Forrest would say that it’s my problem, along with world hunger, but I think it just might be the economy.  Whadda ya think?

The open house and cold weather have slowed my posts.  I worked on the small red daylily today, but the pix came out blurry.  The “Queen Anne’s Lace” is going to the small works show at Haywood.  I’m taking 4 flower paintings and one barn.  I know I’m supposed to expect that they’ll sell like hotcakes, but I don’t.  It is an opportunity to show them.

That was a favorite expression of my mother’s for someone who is crazy.

I will have my studio open house from 1-4 on Sat. Oct. 24.   It should be a good excuse to drive out into the country and see the fall leaves.

I haven’t figured out what this flower doesn’t need.  Credit card, cell phone, car, Ipod, health insurance? 

Stonewall at Fines Creek gym.